Yemen: Overseas Aid

Jim Shannon: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what  (a) funds and  (b) other resources his Department has allocated to Yemen in the last 12 months.

Alan Duncan: The Department for International Development has allocated £50 million of programme funding for development projects in Yemen for this financial year 2010-11. In financial year 2009-10 a total of £27 million was disbursed, as reported in "Statistics for International Development", available on DFID's website.
	There are ten international staff and six local staff working full-time on the Yemen programme.